Lucky Jim
"also a great picture"
Memoirs of Hector Berlioz
"great and very funny"
The Life of Samuel Johnson
"I never liked anything better than Boswell's Life of Johnson except, unfortunately, television"
In Cold Blood
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
"great and very funny"
Hot Blooded Dinosaurs: A revolution in paleontology
"I remember loving Hot Blooded Dinosaurs"
The Third Chimpanzee
"a little too much of him in it but so what"
"I loved a few books by Dinesen"
Brothers Karamazov
The Sound and the Fury
The Red Limit: The search for the edge of the universe
Life: A natural history of the first four billion years of life on Earth
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
"I've read the first volume of Gibbon's Decline and Fall, as beautiful writer as Joyce"
Dead Souls
"I like Sue Grafton"
The Iliad
either the Fitzgerald or Fagles translation
Ulysses
"with a book by [Stuart] Gilbert or someone to tell you what Joyce is on about--understanding 70% of it, it's still the best."
The Periodic Table
"and everything else he wrote"
King Solomon's Ring
Lonesome Dove
Executioner's Song
Armies of the Night
Life on the Mississippi
"I just read some Alice Munro, the best fiction I've read in a long time"
Miguel Street
Suffrage of Elvira
Origins of the Second World War
"though I don't know if he's right about any of it"
War and Peace
"definitely"
Proud Tower
Guns of August
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
"the last two Rabbit books"
A Handful of Dust
"the movie is better and funnier than the book--a rare thing"
To the Lighthouse